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OLNEY THEATRE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC

OLNEY THEATRE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC (Maryland) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,044,096 to it, the largest being AMERICAN GIFT FUND ($761,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$-341556
Revenue FY2025
8
Funders on record
$1.0M
Grants received
$687k
Net assets
4/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%

Against its field

OLNEY THEATRE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1.0M to it.

Operating margin395% · outside the comparable range

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,650 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue -1 ($-14008) Expenses 100 ($648k) Net assets 100 ($6.2M)2018 Revenue -1 ($-24923) Expenses 105 ($679k) Net assets 89 ($5.5M)2019 Revenue 100 ($1.7M) Expenses 111 ($721k) Net assets 105 ($6.5M)2020 Revenue -11 ($-182157) Expenses 104 ($676k) Net assets 91 ($5.6M)2021 Revenue -1 ($-21853) Expenses 122 ($789k) Net assets 78 ($4.8M)2022 Revenue -1 ($-14310) Expenses 144 ($936k) Net assets 62 ($3.9M)2023 Revenue 0 ($-3809) Expenses 135 ($875k) Net assets 48 ($3.0M)2024 Revenue 0 ($0) Expenses 145 ($937k) Net assets 33 ($2.0M)2025 Revenue -20 ($-341556) Expenses 155 ($1.0M) Net assets 11 ($687k)
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Revenue (-20)Expenses (155)Net assets (11)

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of OLNEY THEATRE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,745 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$662k
17
$704k
18
$994k
19
$858k
20
$811k
21
$950k
22
$879k
23
$937k
24
$1.3M
25
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $3k → $531k.

4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)96% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of OLNEY THEATRE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

OLNEY THEATRE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

99% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund OLNEY THEATRE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC.

73%
largest funder
95%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 36% · 2021 71% · 2022 86% · 2023 96%diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

25% of OLNEY THEATRE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

96% of OLNEY THEATRE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $45k that is directly attributable, 75% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 3 states.

NY
MD
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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20
21
22
Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $999k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding OLNEY THEATRE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $632k on record.

State$632k
09
10
13
Top programs
  • Grant$632k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like OLNEY THEATRE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Maryland

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 20%Fundraising 0%

Governance

32
board members
94%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MD

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Olney Theatre Corporation Inc · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OLNEY THEATRE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds OLNEY THEATRE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC?
OLNEY THEATRE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC (Maryland) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,044,096 to it, the largest being AMERICAN GIFT FUND ($761,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does OLNEY THEATRE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,044,096 in grants to OLNEY THEATRE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of OLNEY THEATRE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC?
AMERICAN GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $761,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like OLNEY THEATRE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing